Publications by Francesca Puppo

A bimetallic nanocoral Au decorated with Pt nanoflowers (bio)sensor for H2O2 detection at low potential

Giovanni De Micheli, Sandro Carrara, Irene Taurino, Francesca Puppo

In this work, we have developed for the first time a method to make novel gold and platinum hybrid bimetallic nanostructures differing in shape and size. Au-Pt nanostructures were prepared by electrodeposition in two simple steps. The first step consists o ...

Academic Press Inc Elsevier Science2017

Memristive Biosensors Integration With Microfluidic Platform

Giovanni De Micheli, Sandro Carrara, Francesca Puppo, Ioulia Tzouvadaki, Alessandro Vallero

The integration of nanoscale sensors with microfluidic platforms is a powerful tool for the design of robust biosensing devices that present high reliability and the advantage of a quick data acquisition. In addition, microfluidic based lab-on-a-chip senso ...

Ieee-Inst Electrical Electronics Engineers Inc2016

SiNW-based Biosensors for Profiling Biomarkers in Breast Tumor Tissues

Francesca Puppo

Breast cancer is the most common life-threatening malignancy in women of most developed countries today, with approximately 200,000 new cases diagnosed every year. About 30% of these cases progress to metastatic disease and death. Considering that one-thir ...

EPFL2016

SiNW-FET in-Air Biosensors for High Sensitive and Specific Detection in Breast Tumor Extract

Giovanni De Micheli, Sandro Carrara, Francesca Puppo

The sensitive analysis of proteins is central to disease diagnosis. The detection and investigation of angiogenic and inflammatory ligands in the tumor tissue can further improve the level of knowledge of the cancer disease by capturing the heterogeneity a ...

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers2016

Surface trap mediated electronic transport in biofunctionalized silicon nanowires

Massimiliano Di Ventra, Giovanni De Micheli, Sandro Carrara, Francesca Puppo

Silicon nanowires (SiNWs), fabricated via a top-down approach and then functionalized with biological probes, are used for electrically-based sensing of breast tumor markers. The SiNWs, featuring memristive-like behavior in bare conditions, show, in the pr ...

2016

Computational Study on the Electrical Behavior of Silicon Nanowire Memristive Biosensors

Giovanni De Micheli, Sandro Carrara, Francesca Puppo, Ioulia Tzouvadaki

In this paper, a complete study is carried out investigating the relationship between the biosensing and the electrical characteristics of freestanding two-terminal Schottky-barrier silicon nanowires. This paper successfully reproduces computationally the ...

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers2015

Modeling Memristive Biosensors

Giovanni De Micheli, Sandro Carrara, Francesca Puppo, Ioulia Tzouvadaki

In the present work, a computational study is carried out investigating the relationship between the biosensing and the electrical characteristics of two-terminal Schottky- barrier silicon nanowire devices. The model suggested successfully reproduces compu ...

2015

Memristor-Based Devices for Sensing

Massimiliano Di Ventra, Giovanni De Micheli, Sandro Carrara, Francesca Puppo

In this paper we propose CMOS-compatible Memristive-Biosensors as label-free, highly sensitive sensors for in-air detection of Vascular Endothelial Growth Factor (VEGF) molecules. The memristive behavior of the fabricated devices is strongly affec ...

2014

Memristive Biosensors Under Varying Humidity Conditions

Yusuf Leblebici, Giovanni De Micheli, Davide Sacchetto, Sandro Carrara, Camilla Baj-Rossi, Francesca Puppo, Akshat Dave

We attempt to examine the potential of silicon nanowire memristors in the field of nanobiosensing. The mem- ristive devices are crystalline Silicon (Si) Nanowires (NWs) with Nickel Silicide (NiSi) terminals. The nanowires are fabricated on a Silicon-on-Ins ...

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers2014

High Sensitive Detection in Tumor Extracts with SiNW-FET in-Air Biosensors

Giovanni De Micheli, Sandro Carrara, Francesca Puppo

We have already demonstrated that high quality SiNW-FETs can be used to sense very low concentration range (fM) of pathogenic factors in controlled PBS. In this work we show, for the first time, Silicon Nanowire Field Effect Transistors (SiNW-FET) as biose ...

IEEE2014

Novel Readout Circuit for Memristive Biosensors in Cancer Detection

Giovanni De Micheli, Sandro Carrara, Francesca Puppo, Ali Zaher

We present a novel circuit for the automated and quick characterization of an array of experimental memristive nanowires that are functionalized as biosensors. Successfully functionalized nanowires will express the concentration of target molecules by hyst ...

IEEE2014

Memristive sensors for pH measure in dry conditions

Massimiliano Di Ventra, Giovanni De Micheli, Sandro Carrara, Francesca Puppo

A large progress in pH sensing with nanowire based ion-sensitive field-effect transistors (ISFETs) has been demonstrated over the years. The electrochemical reactions occurring at the wire surface-to-electrolyte interface play a key role in the detection o ...

Elsevier Science Bv2014